Work and Labour in Canada
Author | : Andrew Jackson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Labor |
ISBN | : 9781551304373 |
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Author | : Andrew Jackson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Labor |
ISBN | : 9781551304373 |
Author | : Andrew Jackson |
Publisher | : Canadian Scholars Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
This original and timely book focuses on critical issues surrounding work and labour in Canada. It is an ideal text for Sociology of Work courses, which often integrate labour, industry, and the global economy from a Canadian perspective. This book will also be relevant to a wide range of courses in Labour Studies and Industrial Relations programs across Canada. The thesis is change, and the material is up-to-the-minute. "Work and Labour in Canada" examines changes in the labour market and workplaces, with a strong empirical component based upon the most recent Statistics Canada data. The first section, a well-rounded introduction to the Canadian workplace, discusses why jobs are important; work, wages, and the living standards of Canadian working people; taking life-long learning seriously; and the unhealthy Canadian workplace. The second part focuses on gender-race inequalities. It addresses women in the workforce, older workers in transition to retirement, and minorities in the workforce, including workers of colour, recent immigrants, Aboriginal Canadians, and persons with disabilities. Contemporary unions are also discussed at length, which helps to set the stage for the final section: Canada in a global perspective. The impacts of globalisation and free trade are analysed. Key issues revisited throughout the book include good jobs/bad jobs, family struggles, unemployment, women and work, race/ethnicity and work, as well as Canada in, a comparative, global context.
Author | : John Peters |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 399 |
Release | : 2022-06-29 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1442665122 |
Income inequality has skyrocketed in Canada over the past few decades. The rich have become richer, while the average household income has deteriorated and job quality has plummeted. Common explanations for these trends point to globalization, technology, or other forces largely beyond our control. But, as Jobs with Inequality shows, there is nothing inevitable about inequality. Rather, runaway inequality is the result of politics and policies - what governments have done to aid the rich and boost finance and what they have not done to uphold the interests of workers. Drawing on new tax and income data, John Peters tells the story of how inequality is unfolding in Canada today by examining post-democracy, financialization, and labour market deregulation. Timely and novel, Jobs with Inequality explains how and why business and government have rewritten the rules of the economy to the advantage of the few, and considers why progressive efforts to reverse these trends have so regularly run aground.
Author | : |
Publisher | : CCH Canadian Limited |
Total Pages | : 1386 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Industrial laws and legislation |
ISBN | : 9781553675624 |
Author | : Stacey Reginald Ball |
Publisher | : Canada Law Book |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1996-05-01 |
Genre | : Labor laws and legislation |
ISBN | : 9780888042187 |
Author | : Leah F. Vosko |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 508 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780773529618 |
'Precarious Employment' explores the nature and dynamics of precarious employment in contemporary Canada.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781551309590 |
Author | : Canada. Commission of Inquiry into Part-time Work |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
Report on attitudes to part time employment in Canada - reviews employees attitudes, management attitudes, trade union attitudes, government attitudes, and those of older workers, woman workers and womens organizations to part time work and job sharing; considers age, sex, marital status, educational level, wage rates, hours of work, etc. Of part time workers; discusses old age benefits and fringe benefits. Graphs, statistical tables, survey questionnaires.
Author | : Bob Barnetson |
Publisher | : Athabasca University Press |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2018-11-20 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1771992417 |
How does the current labour market training system function and whose interests does it serve? In this introductory textbook, Bob Barnetson wades into the debate between workers and employers, and governments and economists to investigate the ways in which labour power is produced and reproduced in Canadian society. After sifting through the facts and interpretations of social scientists and government policymakers, Barnetson interrogates the training system through analysis of the political and economic forces that constitute modern Canada. This book not only provides students of Canada’s division of labour with a general introduction to the main facets of labour-market training—including skills development, post-secondary and community education, and workplace training—but also encourages students to think critically about the relationship between training systems and the ideologies that support them.
Author | : Craig Heron |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780773505995 |
Every day millions of Canadians go out to work. They labour in factories, offices, restaurants, and retail stores, on ships, and deep in mines. And every day millions of other Canadians, mostly women, begin work in their homes, performing the many tasks that ensure the well-being of their families and ultimately, the reproduction of the paid labour force. Yet, for all its undoubted importance, there has been remarkably little systematic research into the past and present dynamics of the world of work in Canada.